the Personal AND Political
Therapy for
Because your suffering isn’t just personal
and neither is your survival
We don’t live in a vacuum. What’s going on in the world around us affects us - profoundly. What our ancestors have experienced trickles down the lineage. Surviving interlocking systems of oppression is a full time job. Our current socio-political landscape is dystopic and surreal. It can be so incredibly hard to figure out how to balance your care for the world, your desire for change, the limitations of your energy and attention, your unparalleled grief, and your very human need to not live in a perpetual state of paralyzing anxiety and fear. There’s no way around the fact that sometimes the mere fact of who and how you are makes surviving this world even harder. If you feel like every day you face down challenges that some people never ever have to even think of, then
you’re in the right place.
Here are just a few things we might talk about in our time together:
Personal, Collective and Generational Trauma
Sometimes things happen that absolutely devastate us. Utterly unexpected. Too fast. Too much. Too soon. Not enough. Too late. Against our will. Our ability to cope gets overwhelmed, our mind and bodies hold onto sharp fragments of our experience for a long time. What our parents, caregivers and communities go through echoes through our own lives long after the height of the moment has passed.
I’ll help you make sense of what you’ve been through, and support you in building sturdy ground to stand on and in figuring out how to feel “safe enough” to live your life. Together we’ll figure out how to help you reclaim your own agency and power.
Building Agency in an Unsafe World
Let’s be real. This world might not ever truly be safe for you and the identities you hold. And there’s no certainty or control to be squeezed out of a tighter grasp on things. But that does not mean you are powerless! I’ll help you figure out where you have choice, find the right balance between grit and surrender, and support you in cultivating your own agency and capacity to make change in your own life and the world around you. Together we’ll grow your capacity to take risks, embrace uncertainty, confront struggle, and experience joy amidst it all.
Minority Stress
Holding an identity that is marginalized or stigmatized causes a whole lot of wear and tear on the day to day. Facing prejudice, discrimination, and micro-agressions results in acute and cumulative mental, emotional, and social strain. I’ll help you muck through questions of navigating marginalization, intersectional identity, and cultural gaslighting, and figure out how to make your life riotously your own despite the perpetual stressors pushed onto you.
Erotic Marginalization
Tired of being treated as deviant, dangerous, or confusing for existing outside of dominant, heteronormative, and monogamous societal expectations? I’ll help you balance just existing in the world that punishes you for who you are and what you’re into, with being true to yourself and brave in the face of your desires.
Our work together is a great way to help you build the metaphorical muscles needed to navigate opposing aspects of the human experience that sit up against each other and create tension. Struggle and celebration. Personal pain and positional privilege. Shame and accountability. Anger and vulnerability. Desire and fear. Freedom and responsibility. Heartbreak and Joy.
